Friday, September 25, 2009

THE ENLIGHTENMENT BENEATH THE CONTERCULTURAL SOCIETY

THE ENLIGHTENMENT BENEATH THE CONTERCULTURAL SOCIETY
or in its old theme:
THE ENLIGHTENMENT BENEATH THE UNDERGROUND SOCIETY

Well, well, well.

Anything is part of the society. From hairstyle, education, to relationships, is now dominated. And thus, we are likely to be eaten by being dominated and brainwashed by the prevailing class and its structure. Since I have been a victim of these disillusioned ideas and practicum. I am so deeply sad to these victims and proud to those whom survived.

In this social battlefield, a wave of resistance beneath the underground rise fourth. And more and more of them will set their offence and defence of counterculture to repulse the flow of mainstream culture. And in this battlefield, like the words I have said at first, that within it a spectre will rise within, a spectre of revolution.

What comes revolution a spectre within the social battlefield? Revolution is the idea of the alternative minded underground. This calls for an ultimate insurrection of minds to break off the chains of a stereotypical society, the mainstream culture or I should say their “civilization”. Since V.I Lenin, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, Fidel Castro, Mao Zedong, Daniel Ortega, Lazaro Cardenal and even Ernesto “Che” Guevarra advocated a change in the society and its culture-by revolutionary means.

As what the Istiklal Marsi, the Turkish National Anthem said:

“The lands of the West may be armored with walls of steel,
But I have borders guarded by the mighty chest of a believer.
Recognize your innate strength, my friend! And think:
how can this fiery faith ever be killed,
By that battered, single-fanged monster you call "civilization"?”


Upon hearing it, what Ungor and Ersoy, the men behind the creation of that hymn, seemed to be totally historical and realistic. Civilization meant to be the west, especially Europe attacking Turkey. And thus, man should never bow low to the idea that corrupts the minds of everyone. We tried to defend through, although it is difficult to deal with them. For they are strong and we are weak; for they re advanced and we are primitive; remember, we believe in the uniqueness and sovereignty of man and trying to emancipate in this cannibalistic culture prevailing. We tried to believe in our ideas-and thus we must, and therefore we will. For what they don’t know about our innate strength is deep inside our mind, heart, a well as our soul! And it may likely to release through!

Before it grows worse, we must defend our culture. And if the stream strikes-we must reply them pretty well. The world we have belong is gone too far in searching the real joy and pleasure while the reality around us is a concentration camp-cum-freakshow kind to be led by a clique of stereotypes and cannibals around. There we are beaten, while the other one beats us hardly.

And as more and more people thinking of an ultimate alternative, it may succeed. Or even fail. Better try to think it in a concrete manner before setting it in a series of practicum, rather than to end up acting as if a holy water that consecrates the host.